Abstract
Abstract Among welfare reform s many targets are welfare mothers who have additional children while receiving welfare benefits. To deter women from having children while on welfare, twenty-two states have implemented family caps, which deny additional benefits for children born while their mother is on welfare. The cap imposes a severe hardship on welfare mothers by reducing already meager welfare budgets at a time–after the birth of a child-when families are at their most vulnerable. It also represents the latest in a long line of governmental policies that have attempted to control the child-bearing choices of poor women. This article examines this history and reviews the decades of research that have disproved the relationship between welfare and out-of-wedlock births.
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